sepultura Posted December 9, 2011 Posted December 9, 2011 (edited) Skied underneath Death Picnic on Table Mountain today....looks like its ready to roll! a wee bit thin. Just right for some Cascadian hard person. http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/uploads/3601/IMG_0174.jpg Edited December 9, 2011 by sepultura Quote
keenwesh Posted December 9, 2011 Posted December 9, 2011 anyone have the logistics on how to get there? that looks sweet! Quote
sepultura Posted December 9, 2011 Author Posted December 9, 2011 Death Picnic is on the NW face of Table Mountain, 2km W of the upper Mt Baker Ski area parking lot. Death Banquet looks pretty thin. West Coast Ice by Don Serl has a more in depth description...Looks like its ready to live up to its WI 6 rating to me! Quote
lazzara Posted December 15, 2011 Posted December 15, 2011 I've read somewheres that this pitch is 80m. Any chance you could do it in one pitch with a 70m? Quote
sepultura Posted December 16, 2011 Author Posted December 16, 2011 Looks like a full 80 meters to the trees. Skied by it agin yesterday, looks even fatter! it may not survive these rising temps for the weekend though... Quote
spionin Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 ... why was that last post about conditions deleted? is it in/not in? Quote
wayne Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 We saw Death Banquet and thought it was Death Picnic. Fail  I re-looked at the photo to determine this. We did not see Picnic and it is probably in? Embarassing Quote
spionin Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 sorry, i didn't mean to put you on a spot! was just confused about the missing post. Quote
powderhound Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 wanna post some photos of pan dome and death picnic? Cmon give me something to ogle from my cube tomorrow:) Quote
wayne Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Didnt see Picnic from our Banquet view .Posted Pan Dome mobile pics on Fbook. Quote
kurthicks Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Death Picnic on Dec 11. click for full-size. It wasn't that warm up there over the weekend, so it's still probably fine and growing in the cooling temps  Quote
Tom_Sjolseth Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 Wow, what a line. Wayne, powderhound, Daniel Jeffrey and I climbed this today. A very fun and aesthetic line so close to the parking lot. Thanks to Wayne, powderhound, and especially Daniel Jeffrey for a great climb. Quote
sepultura Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 Thats cool! This thing is rarely climbed....any pictures Tom? Quote
Tom_Sjolseth Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 Wayne's got a bunch of great shots - I didn't bring a camera. It was very chandeliery in spots and we were knocking down a good amount of ice, but some of the ice was really great. We were barraged with spindrift pretty much the entire way. It takes some balls to lead this climb in these conditions, and Wayne and Daniel apparently have them! Â I found the climb to be steeper and more difficult than it looks from the ground. Wayne made it look too easy though. Â We climbed in two teams of two.. Daniel and I, and Wayne and powderhound. Wayne and Daniel each led the business. Quote
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